Types of Segmentation in Operating System
- Virtual Memory Segmentation: Each process is divided into a number of segments, but the segmentation is not done all at once. This segmentation may or may not take place at the run time of the program.
- Simple Segmentation: Each process is divided into a number of segments, all of which are loaded into memory at run time, though not necessarily contiguously.
There is no simple relationship between logical addresses and physical addresses in segmentation. A table stores the information about all such segments and is called Segment Table.
Segmentation in Operating System
A process is divided into Segments. The chunks that a program is divided into which are not necessarily all of the exact sizes are called segments. Segmentation gives the user’s view of the process which paging does not provide. Here the user’s view is mapped to physical memory.
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